Claude Monet Quotes
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
Quotes to Explore
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
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It is encouraging to see our home state of Washington at the forefront of legislation and enforcement on these important consumer protection issues.
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The song "Sing for the Submarine" presents my dream world, which is way different from my waking world. It's set in the future and it's post-apocalyptic.
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My mom gave me a good piece of advice. She said never marry a man thinking you can change him, and I think that starts from your first date when you're in the seventh grade onwards. Women are fixers so we have to just not fix. Don't fix.
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I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
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Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.
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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
